 Whig mind ; that cool and passive intelligence is little likely to yield to ardent emotions of personal loyalty, but its chosen ideal is a body or collection of wise rules fitly applicable to great affairs, pleasing a placid sense by an evident propriety,...  Proceedings - Page 38by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...of the single monarch. This step is natural, is instinctive to the Whig mind ; that cool impassive intelligence is little likely to yield to ardent emotions...placid sense by an evident propriety, gratifying the clear capacity for business by a constant and steady applicability. The Whigs are constitutional by... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...abuses of the time, and in one well-chosen sentence he thus hits off the character of the Whigs : ' The Whigs are constitutional by instinct, as the Cavaliers were monarchical by devotion.' Their political creed was the improvement of the Constitution, not its maintenance upon the old effete... | |
 | 1879 - 820 pages
...abuses of the time, and in one well- chosen sentence he thus hits off the character of the Whigs : ' The Whigs are constitutional by instinct, as the Cavaliers were monarchical by devotion.' Their political creed was the improvement of the Constitution, not its maintenance upon the old effete... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1880 - 540 pages
...to Goethe. In an epigram well worth remembering, the witty reviewer speaks of Goethe having had "the cool shrewdness to wait for inspiration." The literary...as the Cavaliers were monarchical by devotion." Let us add a literary example. Our critic is comparing Scott and Shakspeare as portrayers of natural scenery.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880 - 546 pages
...to Goethe. In an epigram well worth remembering, the witty reviewer speaks of Goethe having had "the cool shrewdness to wait for inspiration." The literary...as the Cavaliers were monarchical by devotion." Let us add a literary example. Our critic is comparing Scott and Shakspeare as portrayers of natural scenery.... | |
 | Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1891 - 574 pages
...of the single monarch : this step is natural, is instinctive, to the Whig mind. That cool, impassive intelligence is little likely to yield to ardent emotions...instinct, as the Cavaliers were monarchical by devotion ; it has been a jest at their present leader* that he is over-familiar with public forms and parliamentary... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 pages
...of the single monarch. This step is natural, is instinctive to the Whig mind ; that cool impassive intelligence is little likely to yield to ardent emotions...affairs, pleasing a placid sense by an evident propriety, gatifying the clear capacity for business by a constant and steady applicability. The Whigs are constitutional... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1879 - 1642 pages
...abuses of the time, and in one well-chosen sentence he thus hits off the character of the Whigs : ' The Whigs are constitutional by instinct, as the Cavaliers were monarchical by devotion.' Their political creed wns the improvement of the Constitution, not its maintenance upon the old effete... | |
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